I had intended one more song. But this is not it. So there will be one more after this, if I can ever make into the studio to finish off what a friend of mine affectionately (I hope) calls a “rock opera.” It is certainly not that. I know it is pretentious enough to …
Thanks to all of you who have been checking in, especially to those of you who have contributed to the project. I have been planning on recording one more song in the studio with some friends, but have had the deadline for the Rolling Stones book hanging over my head. Additionally, I am working …
I’d like this to be be one of my own, “Murder in the Red Barn” (it does start off much like Waits’ “Shore Leave”), or my own Murder Ballads, or perhaps even my own “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.” More likely than not, though, it will probably just turn out to be my …
News of Clear Channel buying the great WFNX, one of the last independent commercial stations with a point of view in the New England, hit me harder than I would have anticipated. Things have been going down this road for more than a decade. And since Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, consolidation of …
There she is her arms are crossed How on earth can she face this loss Thought I was young and had it made All my dues had long been paid See the weeds have grown up high Where the lovers used to lie Icy bay to walk across But nowehere left to go Little …
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Well, this was not on my to-do list, but a great literary agent in Edinburgh approached me about putting together a book proposal to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Rolling Stones. I have just signed a deal with St. Martins to publish it, aiming for spring 2013. The idea is to take 50 of …
I have a bunch of melodies and chord changes swimming around in iTunes. Every once in a while, I will have my library playing on shuffle and one of my demos will come up. I had unchecked all Buff Tom and my solo tracks from the library so they would not pop up when …
This is a thinly fictionalized true story from the annals of Huntington bully lore. Billy Beard on drums. Scott Janovitz tracked him. ***** As always: More about the overall project here: About: Long Island of the Mind Album section. You can download the file for this song here. Right click/Apple click, “save as.” Previous songs collected here. Please pass …
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For a couple of years, circa 1958/’59, my father was second tenor in a vocal quartet called the Fabulairs. They sang a version of Doo Wop, but I think they aspired to sound more like the Platters and the Flamingos than Danny and the Juniors. My mother and father went to go see the show Jersey …
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The balls they had to call this place “Walt Whitman Mall.” Seriously, could you think of anything more cynical than naming a mall after Walt Whitman? This was “our” mall. Walt was born and grew up in Huntington. There is also, more appropriately, a high school named after him as well. I …
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